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A History of Union Pacific Steam...................................39.75 American Steel & Wire Company – Cleveland, OH.......60.00 American Steel Industry 1850-1970 – A Geographic Interpretation ........................................25.75 Amtrak by the Numbers.................................................75.50 Amtrak Power in Color Vol 1 ..........................................48.75 An Illustrated Guide to American Freight Train Equipment ..32.75 Baldwin: Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1: 1906-1939...25.75 Baltimore & Ohio Pacific Locomotives- Handsome Passenger Workhorses.............................27.75 Baltimore & Ohio Rails Across the Heartland Toledo to Cincinnati .....................................................55.75 Baltimore & Ohio Vol 2 Sunburst Trail to Chicago..........40.75 Bangor & Aroostook Stations & Structures....................32.75 Big Hooks – Railway Cranes .........................................36.75 Billboard Refrigerator Cars............................................56.50 Budd Passenger Cars Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 .......each 25.00 Burlington Northern RR Branch Lines The Nebraska Experience.27.75 Burlington Route Passenger Trains Vol 3.......................55.75 Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Ry – H/C ......45.75 Canadian National Steam Vol 1 h/c 65.75; s/c...............45.75 Canadian Trackside Guide 2013....................................32.50 Cass Scenic Railroad – 50 Years a State Park..............55.75 Chesapeake & Ohio K-4 Class 2-8-4 Steam Locos.......23.75 Colorado Rail Annual 31 Colorado RR Water Tanks .....40.75 Conrail Atlantic Region in Color Vol 1 1976-1978..........48.75 Conrail in Color Vol 1, 2 or 3 each.................................48.75 Crowell Lumber Mill – Rapidus Parish, LA ...................35.00 Cumbres & Toltec – A Photographic Tribute ..................45.50 Dayton & Troy Electric Railway ......................................20.75 Detroit & Toledo Shore Line RR - Expressway for Industry .70.75 Diesel’s First 50 Years....................................................74.75 Durango & Silverton – Furukawa...................................45.50 East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Co Rockhill Furnace...35.00 East Broad Top Slim Gauge Survivor ............................45.75 El Camino Real and the Route of the Daylight ..............36.75 Electric Traction Along the Stillwater – Dayton Covington & Piqua ..........................................22.75 Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway – Signature Press ........56.50 Empire The Development of the Timber Industry in Tuolumne County, CA..............................................55.75


A Trip by Rail in the Shenandoah Valley on the B&O RR and Southern Ry................................55.75 Amtrak Power in Color Vol 2 ..........................................48.75 Brooklyn Elevated Equipment........................................60.75 Burlington Northern Diesel Locos 1980 & Fuel Tenders 1985....34.50 Chesapeake & Ohio Coal River District.........................23.75 Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971 .....32.75 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Facilities in Color Vol 1...48.75 Columbia, Newberry & Laurens RR– Dutch Fork Line..34.75 Conrail Atlantic Region in Color Vol 2............................48.75 Conrail Loco Classification Book January 1, 1978 ........34.50 Delaware & Hudson RR Corp Equipment Dept Freight Car Diagrams 1976 ..............34.50 Delaware & Hudson RR Corp Equipment Dept Locomotive Classification 1946 ........34.50


A Mill on the Point: 125 Years of Steel Making at Sparrows Point, MD .....27.75


Erie Lackawanna Power in Color Vol 1..........................48.75 Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway 1885-1905 – s/c............27.75 Extra Narrow Gauge Junction – Maine 2ft.....................55.75 Fast Trains World Wide ..................................................27.75 Gateway Yard - Youngstown, Ohio - Pittsburgh & Lake Erie....60.00 Ghost Rails V9 State Line Legends- Ohio/PA Industrial Lines ...36.75 Great Northern Railway Route of the Empire Builder....34.75 Heisler Locomotive 1891-1941 – Reprint s/c.................36.75 Industrial Railroading in Color Vol 1 or 2 each...............48.75 Interstate RR History of an Appalachian Coal Road .....38.75 Joint Line -1880-1995....................................................40.75 L&N Cumberland Valley Division Album 1945-1985......27.75 Lackawanna Plant – Bethlehem Steel Co Ore to Iron to Finished Steel .......................................27.00 Lehigh & New England RR & Its Successors in Color...48.75 Lehigh Valley Railroad A Photo Album..........................45.50 Logging Locomotives of the West..................................32.75 Logging RRs of Blue Ridge & Smoky Mtns V1 50.50; V2....44.75 Long Island Railroad in Color Volume 1, 2, 3 or 4 each 48.75 Merchants Despatch......................................................60.75 Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 2, 3, or 4 each .........55.75 Minnesota RRs A Photographic History 1940-2012......36.75 Missouri-Kansas-Texas in Color Vol 2 The Red Era ......48.75 Modeling the White Pass ...............................................32.75 Montana Central Ry: Copper, Coal and The Empire Builder....23.75 Morristown & Erie Vol 1 The Early Years 1895-1952 .....48.50 Nevada Central Sagebrush Narrow Gauge - Ferrell .....40.75


Drinkwater & Schriver Mill – Cedar Point, KS ...............27.00 Gold Placers Incorporated Coal Creek Dredger............27.00 Hillman Barge & Construction Co..................................25.00 La Belle Iron Works .......................................................25.00 Puget Sound Power & Light Co White River Hydroelectric Power Project.....................35.00 Pullman – Pullman Palace Car Company Chicago, IL...25.00 Reading Railroad Wilmington, Delaware Repair Shop ..25.00 Stockham Pipe & Fittings Birmingham, AL 1947...........25.00 W.A. Young & Sons Foundry & Machine Shop – Rices Landing, PA ............................27.00


INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES Atlantic Coast Line Orlando Train Station......................27.00 Avery Island Salt Works 1899 –Louisiana .....................35.00 Baltimore & Ohio RR Martinsburg, WV Roundhouse....25.00 Beaumont St Louis & San Francisco Railroad Water Tank – Beaumont, KS.........................27.00 Columbus (GA) Iron Works............................................27.00 Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR Pier #6 Grain Trestle Jersey City 1905 ........................25.00


I am the Train –Boston & Maine Locomotive Engineer..58.00 John Frank Stevens – Civil Engineer.............................36.75 Lehigh River Valley Trackside with Kulp.........................48.85 Lehigh Valley Diesel Pictorial ........................................23.75 Ligonier Valley Rail Road – Arcadia...............................21.50 Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Railroad..................36.75 Maybrook Gateway – H/C..............................................53.75 Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 5 ..............................55.75 Milwaukee Road Power in Color Vol 1...........................48.75 Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern...............................50.75 Missouri Pacific & Texas & Pacific RRs Loco Diagrams 1963.....29.50 Nevada’s Virginia & Truckee Railroad – Arcadia............21.50 New York Central Steam Power in NJ & Pennsylvania ..23.75 Nickel Plate Comes to St Louis .....................................36.75 Norfolk & Western Steam Last 30 Years........................27.75 Norfolk & Western’s Clinch Valley Line ..........................60.75


Denver & Rio Grande Western Narrow Ga Bridges in Color.....24.50 Elgin Joliet & Eastern in Color Vol 1 Eastern Sub .........48.75 Encyclopedia of B&O Cabooses Vol 1...........................38.75 End of the Line –The 1857 Train Wreck at the Desjardins Canal Bridge....................................24.75 General Electric 70 Ton Diesel Locomotives .................34.75 Ghost Rails 10 – Iron Phantoms – Jones & Laughlin....55.75 Great Northern Railway Freight Car Diagrams 1955.....34.50 Great Northern Ry Passenger Car Diagrams 1952.......34.50 Great Northern Ry Steam & Electric Loco Diagrams 1946....34.50 Harriman vs Hill – Wall Street’s Great Railroad War......27.75 Historical Guide to North American RRs 3rd


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Railroad Atlas of the United States Vol 1, 2, 3 or 4 each .65.75 Railroad Critters in Color Vol 1, 2, 3 or 4 each ..............48.75 Railroad Night Scenes...................................................40.50 Railroads For Michigan..................................................45.75 Rails Around Lake Tahoe...............................................56.75 Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Vol 10 - 14 @ 23.50; 15, 16, @ 26.50; 19, 25, 26 @ ....................................28.50


New Haven Description of Passenger Equipment 1956......34.50 New York Central Freight Car Directory 1967................34.50 New York City Electrified RRs in Color Vol 1 or 2 each..48.75 New York Subway Cars From R-1 to R-160...................60.75 O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line ..............................36.75 Pacific Electric Cars A Pictorial Journey 1911-1953 .....65.75 Penn Central in Color Vol 1, 2, 3 or 4 each....................48.75 Penn Central Northeast Region Power Book August 1972.34.50 Penn Central Power in Color Vol 1 or 2 each.................48.75 Penn Central Through Passenger Service ....................48.75 Pennsylvania Railroad Advertising Art ..........................85.75 Pennsylvania RR Facilities in Color Vols 1 - 17 each.....48.75 Pennsy RR Gondolas Revenue & Work Equip 1869-1968..45.75 Pennsy RR Inspection of Physical Property 1948 .........70.00 Pennsy RR Vol 1: Building and Empire 1846-1917........70.75 Pennsylvania Railroad’s Cleveland Docks.....................27.00 Pittsburgh Steel Company 1901-1986 Monessen PA....25.00 Prophet’s Pennsy...........................................................45.50 Pullman Std. Library V1 -50.50;V8-10 or 12 - 16 each ..25.00 Railroad Atlas of No. America: GLE; GLW; Texas, Prairies West, Prairies East, So. East; AZ&NM; Appl. & Pied; Mtns & Plains; So. States, Dakotas & MN each ..................26.50 Railroad Atlas of NA –Ont, Manitoba, Quebec, W. Canada, New Eng., CA&NV or CO&UT @28.50; Northeast ....32.50


Republic Steel –Corrigan, McKinney Works – Cleveland, Ohio.60.00 Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Linking North & South..38.75 Rio Grande A Last Look Back 1974-2010 .....................65.75 Rock Island in Minnesota ..............................................48.75 Rock Island Line ...........................................................45.75 Rock Island Requiem ....................................................34.75 Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad & Predecessors Equipment Vol 3 ................................55.75 Santa Fe Depots Engineering Series Vol 7 or 8 each ...23.75 Sawdust on Leatherbark – Mills at Cass, WV................23.75 South Park’s Gunnison Div Memories & Then Some ....58.75 Southern Pacific Historic Diesels Vol 18 Alco & GE Diesel Switchers .............................32.75


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Norfolk Southern Heritage in Color................................48.75 Norfolk Southern Heritage Locos One Year Later S/C...45.75 Ohio Central in Color Vol 1 Southern Lines...................48.75 Oregonian Railway – Arcadia ........................................21.50 Over the Alleghenies – Early Canals and RRs of PA ....36.75 Penn Central Power in Color Vol 3.................................48.75 Penn Central Power in Color Vol 4.................................48.75 Pennsylvania Railroad Harbor Facilities ........................27.00 Potomac Yard - Gateway Between the North and South.....65.75 Prairie Depots in Color Vol 1 GN, MP, A&O, SLSF & MKT..48.75 Railroad Atlas of the United States Vol 5 MN & IA ........65.75 RRs of King of Prussia, PA: The Past Leads to the Future..23.75 Rails Across Ontario......................................................27.75 Rails Across the Prairies The Railway Heritage of Canada’s Prairie Provinces..27.75 Railway Prototype Cyclopedia 27..................................28.50 Remember the Sussex Branch of Lackawanna RR – H/C..40.75 Remembering the Pennsylvania Railroad .....................24.75 Roanoke Loco Shops and the Norfolk & Western RR...21.50 Routes Not Taken-A Trip Thru NYC’s Unbuilt Subway System..32.75 San Francisco Trolleys...................................................23.75 Santa Fe Loco Facilities Vol 2 West End Western Lines...55.75 Santa Fe Los Angeles Division......................................75.50 Southern Pacific Facilities in Color Vol 1 CA, OR, NV & UT...48.75 Southern Pacific RR Diagrams of Steam Locos 1951...34.50 Southern Pacific Ten-Coupled Locomotives ..................80.75 Steam’s Last Season – A Portfolio of Steam Locomotive Photographs 1955-60 ...................65.75 Steel Mill Railroads in Color Vol 6..................................48.75 Steel Rails and Brick Smokestacks – Middletown, NY..19.50 Steelton Plant – Bethlehem Steel Company .................27.00 Summit Hill The Balloon Route over the DT&I RR –Rev Ed..21.75 The Race Underground-Boston, NY & America’s First Subway...25.75 The Railroad Was Our Life – Boston & Maine...............39.00 The Un-Driving of the Golden Spike..............................23.75 Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad – Nevada Short Line.....55.75 Toronto Trolleys..............................................................23.75 Trackside Around Norfolk With Reisweber.....................48.75 Tragedy at Southern Oregon Tunnel 13 – SP ...............21.50 Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Ry – H/C......45.75 Western Maryland Railway Final O.S. (On Sheet).........45.75 Western New York Steel- Arcadia .................................21.50 Whitewater Valley Railroad- Arcadia..............................21.50 Wilfred Sykes The Story of a Modern Ore Boat ............27.00


Southern Pacific Pass Cars V2 or 3 @125.00; V4 or 5 @....145.00 Southern Pacific’s Golden Empire 1954-1958...............80.75 Southern Ry Company Spencer Shops 1896-1960 ......27.00 Southern Railway Passenger Equipment 1954 .............34.50 SP Narrow Gauge Locos and Freight Equipment..........80.75 Spokane International Ry – Idaho’s Main Line to Canada...45.75 St Paul Union Depot ......................................................36.75 Steam Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway ......55.75 Steel Mill Railroads in Color Vol 2, 3, 4 or 5 each..........48.75 Tank Cars Color Guide Vol 1 or 2 each..........................48.75 Train Wreck The Forensics of Rail Disasters .................27.75 Transit in the Triangle – A Century Look at Pittsburgh Public Transit ................60.75 Union Pacific in the Los Angeles Basin .........................75.50 Union Pacific’s M-10000 and the Early Streamliner Era 1934-1941................................70.75 United States Steel Corp Duquesne Works, PA............25.00 Vintage Cubano.............................................................70.75 Virginian Rails 1953-1993 .............................................45.75 West Florida Rails in Color V1 ACL & SCL 1957-1967 .48.75 West Virginia RRs – Vol 1 24.50; Vol 2 C&O, Vol 3 B&O, Vol 4 VGN, or Vol 5 Logging @ ................27.75


Southern Pacific Lines Across Texas & Louisiana 1934-1961....82.75 Southern Pacific Lines Standard Design Depots...........65.75


A Short Haul to the Bay – Narragansett Pier RR H/C ...60.00 Busted & Still Running – Two Foot Gauge Bridgton, ME.....50.00 Cincinnati Locomotive Builders 1845-1868 – White ......40.00 Coal Boats to Tidewater – Wakefield ...........................100.00 Edaville Story –H/C Viekman.........................................60.00 Great Siberian Railway................................................225.00 Logging Railroads of the White Mountains....................45.00 Mail by Rail – Long........................................................55.00 Maine Scenic Route – Crittenden..................................45.00 Maine Two Footers – Moody..........................................40.00 Passenger Terminals & Trains Droege...........................75.00 Railroads of Canada – Legget.......................................60.00 Railroads of New Zealand .............................................50.00 Railroads to the Rio – Allhands ...................................250.00 Railway to the Moon –Kidder.......................................125.00 Story of the Pullman Car – Original Hubbard ................75.00 The Comp’ny .................................................................60.00 Tumult on the Mountain – West Virginia Logging – Clarkson.......40.00 Tweetsie – Blue Ridge Stemwinder – Scheer................40.00 US West – Saga of Wells Fargo 1st


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